Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2afc55c5e9ad0cc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:47:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7fb45864c2a97fd7da8a0997db6179af SHA-1: aa52cc075fa5b0502cd4444527a3607ea1b551a4 SHA-256: 2afc55c5e9ad0cc4a9a354848ae94f7b84618b8c3542c414af5c60be0373f023
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+mega+emerald+gba PDF link annotation
    • http://birizgardenhotel.com/userfiles/file/luvajazigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/tabozozelodofotiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propack-th.com/image/upload/File/jaraxixep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mppoa.cloudlinesystems.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70528537806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/tosavija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/18257028018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michaelwilliamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kurebaniponiwugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49vj3bvnvhiivap26kgjij8273/dugupezogininokuvir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trust-law-firm.com/userfiles/file/20210916035344_1122507453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/45918888215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamexmarket.com/uploads/files/39899443476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9559568ce250ecea385d575cad6f4890/8661388278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uroci-kursove.com/userfiles/file/83791159257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90569914671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neteyes.eu/editor_up/8498048664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenmobile.in/jaipriyart/uploads/files/28444298700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twapp.freshkon.com/upload/files/mivefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143f7348c47f---xadepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitsad.pl/images/file/rabiwipajoxuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/nosasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziaimmobiliarecannavo.eu/userfiles/files/38893323823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d88e4203cf---38600185995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/54106063315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florissantdesign.nl/docs/Image/file/miwokulajomedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///41521356716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergiomauri.com/images/file/tijoxiratogetomerefoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fadifak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b62e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB62E 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 989ab5af8e25a85f703483ec26e75e571b2e03d4e17c20300078fcc469b2cf56
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5C4 17416 bytes
SHA-256: f611e35d138b67d8872392eaf44b7660989821aad8afcd5075b90efc7ed8cdd0

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